Letter: Puzzled snowbird

Published: Sunday, March 9, 2014 at 04:56 PM.

As I sat by the pool the other day, a friend asked me why so many Canadians like Barack Obama. I’m a Ca-nadian snowbird and I often wonder the same thing.

I dislike President Obama, and I explained that before the primaries back in 2008, very few people in Canada had even heard of the man. I suspect the same was true here in the United States.

Why so many people jumped on his bandwagon was and is a puzzle to me. I thought he was a charlatan from the get-go and in no way would have cast a vote for him — if I were voting — because he had no record to reflect on and no accomplishments I knew of that were worthy of placing him in charge of the most impor-tant country in the world.

His so-called signature accomplishment, Obamacare, was not in play before his first election, so Canadians cannot use that as a favorable reason.

We’re not talking about changing a city hall councilor here because you don’t happen to like him, if you know what I mean. An American presidential election is serious stuff that will affect every major country in the world when it comes to economics, trade, political stability, immigration, etc., and those voting ought to understand the consequences.

Now, after 5½ years in power, Obama has shown his true colors and doesn’t appear to be a friend of Canada, his biggest trading partner. The Keystone pipeline also comes to mind as an example of how Obama allows special-interest groups to sway his judgment.

As I sat by the pool the other day, a friend asked me why so many Canadians like Barack Obama. I’m a Ca-nadian snowbird and I often wonder the same thing.

I dislike President Obama, and I explained that before the primaries back in 2008, very few people in Canada had even heard of the man. I suspect the same was true here in the United States.

Why so many people jumped on his bandwagon was and is a puzzle to me. I thought he was a charlatan from the get-go and in no way would have cast a vote for him — if I were voting — because he had no record to reflect on and no accomplishments I knew of that were worthy of placing him in charge of the most impor-tant country in the world.

His so-called signature accomplishment, Obamacare, was not in play before his first election, so Canadians cannot use that as a favorable reason.

We’re not talking about changing a city hall councilor here because you don’t happen to like him, if you know what I mean. An American presidential election is serious stuff that will affect every major country in the world when it comes to economics, trade, political stability, immigration, etc., and those voting ought to understand the consequences.

Now, after 5½ years in power, Obama has shown his true colors and doesn’t appear to be a friend of Canada, his biggest trading partner. The Keystone pipeline also comes to mind as an example of how Obama allows special-interest groups to sway his judgment.

— MARGARET MacMILLAN
Seagrove Beach

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